fluffy, unfornately saying.. yes. money play an important role in it. but money invest wrongly also another problem.
musang on api,
dude dont think we met before right? any chances of u coming down KL? a couple of guys from keiconcept.net are very keen to meet u and ur car, and of coz same goes to me.
yes i agree with u there is plenty of method to increase torque/hp and increasing displacement is one of the method. ok this much very much depending on personal preferences. to me, i still think there is more room to upgrade with a displacement of 660cc, so i would not go to the extend of easy but extensive swapping of 850cc to churn out more power.
put it this way, as a comparison between my 660T and my teammate's 850T, we both generate over 100hp and we both have 120Nm of torque. that's the end figure. the case is, both of us using different gearbox. mine is a stock L2 gearbox where as his is not the L2 gearbox (what gearbox u might be thinking? hehe come KL we show u.. muahaha) both car at 3rd gear on dyno, with mine only can push merely close to 30hp at 3k RPM where as his 850T can push 60hp++ at 3k RPM (the higher displacement producing more torque at lower rev). dont even mention of the torque there.. so to say, we both have different range of powerband (both aim for track usage) and it's very clear u can see what i'm losing at.. (displacement)
anyhow that's not the actual potential of the 850T.. it's going for a proper tuning soon in time next week using management so the outcome i'm expecting would be around 130~140hp at the wheel. i wont reveal the owner here la but i think u would know who he is if on and off u read the updates in keiconcept.net (kantoi aku if that fella read this msg..)
back to that and relate some with money (i hope he doesnt mind this too and yes again, money plays an important role). he rebuilt a whole 882T from scratch and i think the engine rebuilt figure touches above rm10k. so, rm10k to buy such amount of hp/torque, what would u say? there is another dude in keiconcept.net that spent less than RM5k on 660T + bolt ons and get 100hp (i lost count on how much i spent to get that hp so i give another dude as example). let's not comment on this la, it's just personal preferences again. anyway i think i'm going to lose track of what i'm trying to imply.. i better stop here..
but to me, torque is more important than hp. if not mistaken there's a saying "hp sell the car, torque win the game". i still very much emphasize on torque figure.
also, for the fun of it, hereby attached is a dyno chart of 4 different setup of kancil turbo